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January 6, 2023
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The Idiot Dream of the Unity Speaker
McCarthy’s epic struggle briefly gave the punditocracy a chance to indulge in one of its most persistent—and persistently stupid—fantasias.
January 5, 2023
The Soapbox
The Anti-McCarthy Right Has No End Goal Other Than Humiliating Him
The fringiest members of the House Republican caucus aren’t mounting a coup d’état, they’re staging a coup de vibes.
October 27, 2022
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The Next Generation of House Leadership
Hakeem Jeffries on the priorities of tomorrow’s Democratic leaders
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December 9, 2021
The Soapbox
You Should Take Matt Gaetz’s Plan to Make Trump the Speaker of the House Seriously and Literally
What sounds like a zany idea dreamt up in an opium den could have dire repercussions for the future of our democracy.
October 27, 2016
Paul Ryan better watch his back.
October 9, 2015
The Republican Party's Dysfunction Is an Embarrassment to Us All
October 18, 2013
When Lee Atwater and a Newt Gingrich Aide Tried to Gay-Bait Tom Foley

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